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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Health and safety duties - Key principles relating to duties

35: Compliance with other enactments

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“Other laws can be considered when checking if health and safety duties are met”

When you or someone else needs to figure out if a duty under this law is being followed, you can look at rules from other laws too. These other rules might be about health and safety, or they might not be. But if they apply to the situation and could affect anyone’s health and safety, you can consider them. This helps you understand if the duty is being met properly.

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Part 2 Health and safety duties
Key principles relating to duties

35Compliance with other enactments

  1. In determining whether a duty imposed on a person by or under this Act is being or has been complied with, a person or a court may have regard to the requirements imposed under any other enactment (whether or not those requirements have a purpose of ensuring health and safety) that apply in the circumstances and that affect, or may affect, the health and safety of any person.